Friday, March 22, 2013

Since it's spring (at least according to the calendar...our weather is saying otherwise), I've been trying to get back into doing my nails more often, a hobby I got out of after my son was born 19 months ago (not by choice, but lack of time). I just started using CND Solar Oil and I feel like my cuticles are rebelling! (So try to ignore the boo-boo in my photos...I swear it looks 10x worse on camera than it does IRL!) Anyway...I've spotted these spring collections in grocery/drugstores over the last few weeks.

This Sally Hansen LE Insta-Dri collection is a mystery to me. I've seen on a few other blogs that there's a new collection with 3 or 4 colors, which the bloggers have referred to as a spring collection, but none of those are in this one. So I don't know if this is another spring one, or if this particular store just received a summer collection early?! To my knowledge, they're all new colors, as I can't find anything when Googling the names. L to R: S-teal a Base, Grape Race, Knockout Pink, Straw-ready, Man-go Team, Butter-fly Stroke, In Record Lime, Blue-ming Fast

I grabbed 4...there were $2 off COUPONS, how could I not?!

Knockout Pink, a cool pink cream

Grape Race, a cool light-medium purple cream

Straw-ready, a bright-dark pink-almost red (does that even make sense?!) cream

S-teal a Base, a greeny-teal cream with teal shimmer. Haven't worn any yet, but based solely on bottle color, this one is my fave! For $2.59 I feel like going back and getting the 4 remaining shades...might just do that tomorrow, hope they still have them! I love SH ID for quick manis on vacation, and for pedis.

Brilliant Cut is actually unique in my collection. It's a greige-y gravender, but lighter than most polishes I've seen in these shades, and with hidden silvery shimmer. LOVE.

Sparkling Jewel is in the same vein as CND Effects, and I must have 100 polishes that are its sisters, but when a polish can transform any cream polish, you can never have too many of those, right?!

I found both SH collections at a regional drugstore named Discount Drug Mart.

I can't say I was thrilled about anything in the Khroma nail polish line (maybe because of who it's from?!) but I just found it interesting that their line could put out a polish, when they have the collections from Nicole by OPI. You'd think there'd be a non-compete or something! Meijer, if anyone cares. They'll probably be 75% off in a month. (I could make a lame joke here, like "just like Kim's klothes," but I won't.)

Obviously these aren't brand-new, but it's the first time I've seen them in a bricks-and-mortar store. Nice to know Meijer seems to be getting each Color Club collection (several collections later, but still...nice, nonetheless.) I gave up and ordered them from Rickys NYC online months ago since the nail supply stores I stalk never got them; the BB&B with Harmon's here never did either.

What do you thing? Any must-haves for my fellow nail polish lovers out there?